External Hard Drive Coping Very Slow

jdreduplessis

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Sep 6, 2017
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I have 3tb Seagate Hard Drive. It's about 6 months old. The copying speed was decent but all of sudden it crashed yesterday. It copies files now around 100kb/s. When i watch videos straight from the hard drive they lag, but when i copy the to my desktop the playback is fine. I tried optimizing my hard drive but the slow copying is still present. All my drivers are also up to date.
 
Solution
I would perform a defrag and error checking on your drive, from windows Start, This PC, right click on Hard drive select properties, then tools
run defrag then error checking